The emerging conceptual framework of evolutionary developmental biology

Wallace Arthur
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Wallace Arthur: Ecology Centre, School of Sciences, University of Sunderland

Nature, 2002, vol. 415, issue 6873, 757-764

Abstract: Abstract Over the last twenty years, there has been rapid growth of a new approach to understanding the evolution of organismic form. This evolutionary developmental biology, or ‘evo-devo’, is focused on the developmental genetic machinery that lies behind embryological phenotypes, which were all that could be studied in the past. Are there any general concepts emerging from this new approach, and if so, how do they impact on the conceptual structure of traditional evolutionary biology? In providing answers to these questions, this review assesses whether evo-devo is merely filling in some missing details, or whether it will cause a large-scale change in our thinking about the evolutionary process.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1038/415757a

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